Today marks the 104th Anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China🇨🇳. China’s achievements after the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949, is regarded as the most rapid development in human history:

Life expectancy in 1949 was 36, by 1972 it was 61. Currently, it is 78.5.

National income grew five-fold over the 25-year period 1952-1978, increasing from 60 billion to over 300 billion yuan, with industry accounting for most of the growth

80% of Chinese were illiterate in 1949, by 2015, 94.4% were literate

850 million people were lifted out of poverty in the space of just 4 decades

In 1981, almost 90% of the population lived below the international poverty line. By 2015, only 1% lived below the poverty line

Since 1978 on average, China pulled 19 million poor people out of extreme poverty every year

China has accounted for nearly 75% of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty since 1978

China has become the largest trading partner of more than 120 countries

The Belt & Road Initiative has been launched, dubbed ‘the project of the century’, with over 150 countries joining

The average disposable income per urban household surged 66% from 2013 to 2020, according to official statistics. In rural households it rose 82% in that same period

Footage: Mao Zedong declaring the People’s Republic of China in 1949

104 years since the founding of the Communist Party of China🇨🇳:

‘21st Century China and Deng Xiaoping’s market reforms would have been impossible without the Mao era’

-Chinese venture capitalist Eric Li on Going Underground

Why are the US🇺🇸, UK🇬🇧, and Europe🇪🇺 decaying in late-stage capitalism while China🇨🇳 continues to rise?

Chinese venture capitalist Eric Li describes the difference between China’s market economy and NATO nation capitalism:

‘I’m a capitalist, but I have no political power.’

Today marks the 104th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China

PROF. JEFFREY SACHS:

‘China🇨🇳 is not an enemy. China is just a success story. That’s why it is viewed by the US🇺🇸 as an enemy, because China is a bigger economy than the US. That’s all.’

Today marks the 104th Anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China

History they don’t teach you: on this day in 1960, Fidel Castro nationalised Esso, Shell and Texaco in Cuba🇨🇺, loosening the United States’ draconian control of the Cuban economy.

Before Cuba's revolution, US financial interests owned 90% of Cuba’s mines, 80% of public utilities, 50% of railways, 40% of sugar production & 25% of bank deposits.

In the first 30 months after Fidel Castro and Cuba’s communists came to power, more classrooms were built in those 30 months than had been built in the previous 30 years. Within the first six months of Castro's government, 600 miles of road had been built across the island, while $300 million was spent on water and sanitation schemes. Over 800 houses were constructed every month in the early years of the administration in a measure to cut homelessness, while nurseries and day-care centers were opened for children and other centers opened for the disabled and elderly.

With the arrival of the revolutionary government, Cuban healthcare was nationalised and expanded with heavy investment, bringing free healthcare access to millions. Universal vaccination for childhood diseases was introduced, leading to infant mortality rates plummeting. Cuba's 'army of doctors' is now sent to crisis-hit countries around the world. Since 1963, more than 600,000 Cuban health workers have provided medical services in more than 160 countries.

Despite being under the illegal embargo imposed by the US, Cuba now has a higher life expectancy than the US, has more doctors per capita than the US, and is among the top 35 countries for lowest child mortality rates. Under Fidel Castro's rule, UNICEF declared severe child malnutrition to be eradicated.

Fidel Castro: ‘We repudiate the ruthless persecution and genocide unleashed by Nazism against the Jews…but I cannot recall anything more similar in our contemporary history than the genocide carried out today by imperialism and Zionism against the Palestinians’

Fidel Castro on the media in the USA🇺🇸:

‘You reporters are not the owners, the newspapers belong to the monopoly here.’

7 companies (Disney, Comcast, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, News Corp/Fox, Sony, Amazon) control the overwhelming majority of what you watch and read.

Marco Rubio has officially killed USAID

Here’s Afshin Rattansi vs CIA Veteran Melvin Goodman:

Goodman: 'African countries are very grateful for USAID.'

Afshin: 'Name one country.'

Goodman: 'Senegal.'

Afshin: 'Senegal's government THREW OUT USAID and the IMF loans.'

This is how most of the British political and media class think:

‘But the IDF is sniping children in the head’

‘Whether you like it or not, Israel is our ally.’

‘IDF soldiers say they were ordered to shoot Palestinians waiting for food.’

‘How can we not support our ally?’

This is Britain’s commitment to the ‘rules-based order’ summarised; rules for the rest but not for the West and its allies.

So long as you are allied to Washington and London, the British political and media class will excuse all kinds of atrocities and despicable war crimes.

When these people tell you they have ‘shared values’ with Israel, believe them. They share the values of genocidal colonial barbarism.

‘But Bob Vylan…’

On this day in 1925, Congo’s🇨🇩 independence leader and pan-African hero Patrice Lumumba was born. He gained prominence as a charismatic and vocal advocate for independence from Belgian colonial rule, which led to his involvement in the Congolese National Movement (MNC).

Upon Congo's independence in June 1960, Lumumba was appointed as the country’s first Prime Minister. He faced immediate crises, thanks to neocolonial meddling in the country, including a mutiny within the army and the secession of the mineral-rich province of Katanga, backed by Belgium, the country which tortured Congo under colonialism for many years. His appeal for Soviet aid to quash the secessionist movement led to Western leaders immediately beginning to plot against Lumumba.

His rule would end in tragedy, when he was captured in Lodi by the troops of coup leader Joseph-Désiré Mobutu. The coup was backed by the US and Belgium, with US President Eisenhower ordering the CIA to ‘eliminate’ Patrice Lumumba.

For daring to oppose Belgian colonialism and US domination of Congo’s natural resources, Lumumba was executed by firing squad on the 17th of January 1961 after being tortured. Before being killed, the colonial conspirators tried to force Lumumba to eat the paper on which his Independence Day speech was written on. After being executed, his body was dissolved in acid.

Lumumba still remains an icon of pan-Africanism to this day, with his image and memory being a rallying point for Africans across the continent against neocolonialism.

PUTIN🇷🇺: 'There is a strong desire to freeze the current unfair state of things...for centuries the West has been stuffing their stomachs with human flesh and they've been stuffing their pockets with money. But they must realise this ball of vampires is about to end.'

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves cried at PMQs after Sir Keir Starmer refused to confirm whether she would stay in her job…

Tears shed for power, but no tears shed for being part of a govt which participates in a genocide, facilitating the mass slaughter of Palestinian children

Another piece of evidence of the UK’s participation in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, to add to the endless list of evidence for a future genocide tribunal

The British political class found a chant by Bob Vylan about the IDF more offensive than the apocalyptic destruction of Gaza, home to 2.1 million people before the genocide began.

The bloodstained hypocrisy of the British political class knows no limits.

With all the outrage and vitriol directed at Bob Vylan from the UK and US political class…

you’d think he was the one starving the children of Gaza, not Israel.

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: ‘All problems in the world go back to the British🇬🇧…’

Palestine Action has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation after a vote in the British Parliament…

For opposing genocide and taking action to hinder Britain’s participation in the horrors of the Gaza genocide to stop scenes like this.

Palestine Action has never killed anybody, unlike the IDF which the UK arms and assists in committing a colonial slaughter.

Today is the birthday of Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange, who sacrificed his freedom, enduring US-UK persecution, so that we could learn the truth.

In one of his interviews on Going Underground, Julian Assange explains the US’🇺🇸 years-long preparation for the dirty war on Syria🇸🇾, in which it deliberately fostered sectarian division with fake and exaggerated rumours, as part of a plan to overthrow Bashar Al-Assad

Today is Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange’s birthday. A reminder of why he was persecuted and targeted by the US for over a decade:

Among the many Wikileaks revelations was the Collateral Murder footage from Iraq, in which a US Apache helicopter opens fire. Reuters journalists Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen were gunned down, several others were killed while the US pilots laughed.

🚨Julian Assange on how the CIA targeted his family:

“It is now a matter of public record that under Pompeo's explicit direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and assassinate me within the Ecuadorian embassy in London and authorized going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks, and the planting of false information. 

My wife and my infant son were also targeted. 

A CIA asset was permanently assigned to track my wife, and instructions were given to obtain DNA from my 6-month-old son's nappy. 

This is the testimony of more than 30 current and former US intelligence officials speaking to the US press, which has been additionally corroborated by records seized in a prosecution brought against some of the CIA agents involved. 

The CIA's targeting of myself, my family, and my associates through aggressive, extrajudicial, and extraterritorial means provides a rare insight into how powerful intelligence organizations engage in transnational repression."